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Carrier Class Triple Play |
Alvarion Announces New
BreezeACCESS® VL 4.0, Offering Carrier Class Triple Play Services in
5GHz
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Alvarion Ltd.
June 5, 2006
New Version Supports Unparalleled Throughput,
QoS for Toll Quality VoIP, Multimedia Services
Tel Aviv, Israel -- Alvarion Ltd., (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading
provider of wireless broadband solutions and specialized mobile
networks, today announced its new BreezeACCESS® VL 4.0 system offering
carrier class triple play services in the 5GHz bands. Supporting an
unparalleled 40,000 packets per second per sector and quality of service
(QoS) to address the growing need for VoIP and multimedia services,
version 4.0 is backward compatible with all previously released
BreezeACCESS VL hardware versions.
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The world's most deployed OFDM-based multipoint broadband access
solution for the 5GHz bands, the VL now supports toll quality voice and
other triple play services due to its highly efficient air utilization,
high-capacity throughput for all packet sizes, and call admission
control using a unique dynamic resource allocation protocol (DRAP)
mechanism. Using multimedia application prioritization (MAP), version
4.0 supports high performance voice and video through the implementation
of a unique wireless link prioritization (WLP) protocol. Tests have
indicated that the use of MAP is mandatory to support both toll quality
VoIP and broadband data simultaneously.
"The growing use of voice and video services over broadband has made QoS
and high capacity support of small packet traffic a must for
accelerating operator business models and our new BreezeACCESS VL 4.0
satisfies that critical need," said Rudy Leser, Alvarion's corporate
vice president of strategy and marketing. "In contrast to legacy systems
that can only offer ‘best efforts’ services, toll quality VoIP requires
advanced QoS algorithms as businesses everywhere increasingly see VoIP
as a viable, cost effective alternative. Moreover, municipal mesh
networks, homeland security, public safety, and vertical applications,
such as monitoring and maintaining oil rigs or other industrial assets
will also benefit greatly from support of real-time video and voice
applications in the 5GHz bands."
The BreezeACCESS VL 4.0 also offers other new features, such as security
enhancements with segregated secure networks within networks through the
use of VLAN QinQ 802.3ad, options for a FIPS 197 certified encryption
mode, and the ability to allow and block specific CPE access. While its
exceptional airlink efficiency translates into more overall network
capacity, the VL 4.0 is even quicker and simpler to install and scale
with its ability to do automatic scanning of both 10 and 20 MHz channels
to determine the best connection. And with this new version,
BreezeACCESS VL is now certified according to the updated ETSI EN 301
893 revision 1.3.1 standards.
To date, more than 100,000 units of the BreezeACCESS VL have been
installed in more than 100 countries worldwide, including with large
carriers such as Verizon Avenue and British Telecom. With a superior
combination of features including OFDM non-line-of-sight (NLOS)
performance, extended reach of more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles),
high capacity, encryption, and QoS mechanisms, carriers, mobile
operators, ISPs, enterprises and others can use the VL to provide triple
play services to business and residential subscribers in the 5GHz bands.
With a per chassis maximum capacity on the base station of over 300 Mbps
in a single 3U shelf, carriers can now offer subscribers up to 32 Mbps
(net FTP). The BreezeACCESS VL is supported by AlvariSTAR™, a
carrier-class network management system that simplifies network
deployment and enables rapid expansion of a service provider’s customer
base with effective fault management for quick resolution.
About Alvarion
With more than 2 million units deployed in 150 countries, Alvarion is
the worldwide leader in wireless broadband, providing systems to
carriers, ISPs and private network operators, and also in extending
coverage of GSM and CDMA mobile networks to developing countries and
other hard to serve areas.
Leading the WiMAX revolution, Alvarion has the most extensive
deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the
full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions.
Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of business and residential
broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base
station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection,
public safety communications, and mobile voice and data. Alvarion works
with several global OEM providers and more than 200 local partners to
support its diverse global customer base in solving their last-mile
challenges.
As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and
delivering innovations for more than 10 years from core technology
developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging
its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and
experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company's prominent work
in the WiMAX Forum™ is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of
standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading
the entire industry to mobile WiMAX solutions.
For more information, visit Alvarion’s World Wide Web site at
www.alvarion.com
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Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are
based on the current expectations or beliefs of Alvarion’s management
and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the
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cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the
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